Young Mařenka is madly in love with Jeník, but her father has a better catch in mind for her... From Prague’s National Theatre, Czech film and stage director Alice Nellis revisits Bedřich Smetana’s ...

Bedrich Smetana is one of the most beloved Czech composers -- two others are Antonin Dvorak and Leos Janacek -- and particularly admired for the orchestral cycle "Ma Vlast" ("My Country") and the ...

Blanik was the last of an amazing series called "My Country," penned by a composer who was completely deaf. The series was the pinnacle of Bedrich Smetana's life's work, and it's regarded as a Czech ...

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The director Jean-Romain Vesperini cleverly tied together the loose strands of Bedrich Smetana’s opera at Bard’s SummerScape festival. By Oussama Zahr Bedrich Smetana’s “Dalibor” is the kind of opera ...

John Schaefer: I'm John Schaefer, and you're listening to the Artist Propulsion Lab podcast. Today, flute-player Emi Ferguson continues "This Composer is Sick," exploring the impact of syphilis on ...

He’s known as the founder of the Czech nationalist school of composition, but Bedřich Smetana’s first language was actually German. And, some of his formative musical experiences occurred in another ...

Bohemian composer Bedřich Smetana, one of the primary influences that shaped Czech music, kept composing even after becoming deaf due to illness – and delivered one of his most famous works during ...

Recently, out of the blue, I received a fascinating communique from a trustee of the Dvorak Society. It was one of those intriguing moments that we all have where, instead of just opening the envelope ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once a decade there is a Year of Czech Music that reaches out from the Czech Republic to audiences around the ...